Teacher: Kelly Rozelle Subject: ELA Grade: 7 Dates: 11/14/16 -- 11/18/16

MONDAY / Lesson Title: “Lamb to the Slaughter” / Standards: L.7.1, L.7.2
Objectives:
  • Make predictions about a story.
Procedures:
  • Sacred Reading Time (SRT)
  • Writer’s Workshop (WW)—Sentence of the Week (SoW)—What do I notice?
Skill Taught / Mentor Sentences / Points to Emphasize
Semicolon usage / •The dinner was great; the dessert was average.
•The movie was interesting; however, I fell asleep before it ended. /
  • Only use a semicolon between two independent clauses when the clauses are related to one another.
  • Use a semicolon before a transition word. Use a comma after the transition word.

  • Return “The Monkey’s Paw” vocabulary test.
  • Students view “Lamb to the Slaughter” slideshow and record predictions.

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation and Predictions
Comments:
TUESDAY / Lesson Title: “Lamb to the Slaughter” / Standards: L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.6
Objectives:
  • Interpret and evaluate the impact of ironies in a text.
  • Understand an author’s use of time and sequence through the use of foreshadowing.
  • Explain how the choice of a narrator affects the tone and mood of a story.
Procedures:
  • SRT
  • WW/SoW—Imitate
Students write two sentences that contain a semicolon.
  • Students view and take notes on “Lamb to the Slaughter’ Learning Focus (Irony, Foreshadowing, Mood, and Tone) Presentation.

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation
Comments:
WEDNESDAY / Lesson Title: “Lamb to the Slaughter” / Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.3, RL.7.6
Objectives:
  • Interpret and evaluate the impact of ironies in a text.
  • Understand an author’s use of time and sequence through the use of foreshadowing.
  • Explain how the choice of a narrator affects the tone and mood of a story.
Procedures:
  • SRT
  • WW/Quickwrite
Describe an unexpected change that you experienced with someone else. What was the change and why was it unexpected? Discuss how you responded to the change and how the other person responded. How were your perspectives on the change different? The same?
  • Shared-Reading
Read-aloud and discuss Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation and Responses to Critical Reading Questions
Comments: Progress Reports
THURSDAY / Lesson Title: “Lamb to the Slaughter” / Standards: L.7.4, L.7.5, W.7.4, W.7.10, L.7.1, L.7.2
Objectives:
  • Explore challenging vocabulary in Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
Procedures:
  • SRT
  • Reread excerpts from “Lamb to the Slaughter,” focusing on challenging vocabulary.
  • Working independently, students create a written response to one of three vocabulary journal prompts.
Ideas must be focused and developed.
Student must correctly use the vocabulary word in the response.
Student must include a correctly written compound sentence.
  • Share the following quote by Roald Dahl:
All good books have to have a mixture of extremely nasty people—which are always fun—and some nice people. Inevery book or story there has to be somebody you can loathe. The fouler and more filthy a person is, the more fun it is to watch him getting scrunched.
  • Read aloud excerpts from Roald Dahl’s autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood.

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation and Vocabulary Journals
Comments:
FRIDAY / Lesson Title: “Lamb to the Slaughter” / Standards: L.7.4, L.7.5, W.7.4, W.7.10, L.7.1, L.7.2
Objectives:
  • Explore challenging vocabulary in Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
Procedures:
  • SRT
  • Reread excerpts from “Lamb to the Slaughter,” focusing on challenging vocabulary.
  • Working independently, students create a written response to one of three vocabulary journal prompts.
Ideas must be focused and developed.
Student must correctly use the vocabulary word in the response.
Student must include a correctly written front branch sentence and a middle branch sentence.
  • Share the following quote by Roald Dahl:
Any good story must start with a strong plot that gathers momentum all the way to the end. My main preoccupation when I am writing a story is a constant unholy terror of boring the reader. Consequently, as I write my stories I always try to create situations that will cause my reader to:
1. Laugh (actual loud belly laughs)
2. Squirm
3. Become enthralled
4. Become TENSE and EXCITED and say, “Read on! Please Read on! Don’t stop!”
  • Read aloud excerpts from Roald Dahl’s autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood.

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation and Vocabulary Journals
Comments: